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0. O.'CROSB Y. BAND RUFFLE.

Patented Dec. 1 1863.

Ina/6772 'lFleven, in the county-of New Haven and and theletters of reference-marked thereon,-

' this specification, and represent, in-- j which Letters Patent were-granted to'inyself 'and Henry Kellogg, hearing date December 2, 11562; and it consists in attaching a bend to 4 3 the ruflie in snchimmmer-asto produce an even, smooth, and. finished f edgeyand also .duce my improved band-rufli to being introduced into the frillin'g-ma'chine aforesaid; but-it may be'made from ribbon or either hemmed or nnliem'm'ed.

I improved rufflel first hem u'pon theout'er edge es etc, Fig. 2. r This done, I introduce UNITE STATES o. o. CROSBY, OENEW EQAVEN, oo NEoTIoUn IM-PROVEMENC'IY'IIN fiiecifictttioxiforming part of IiettersPatent No. 40,788, drtted'Deccmber 1,;.1d3.

and \vhichsnid drawings constitute partof Figure 1, ar view of my ruflile finished Fig. 2, atransverse section enlarged; Fig. 3, longitudinal section of the-same enlarged, cut-. ting -through.the band. '1

My invention -r.el:t'es to "ruffle or frilling' made upon the radio or frilliiig'machine for.

thereby stiffening the'np'per or stitched edge, of the rn tfie, whereby its form is the, better preserved.

To enable 0 thers skilled the m I to e, I will pro'cee'd to describe my manner of "so doing. 'I prefer to make'inyruifl'e or'frilling-froin thin muslin hemmed upon one v edge previous any strip of fabric with or withoil t selvages,

The strip from which I propose to make my BANDeRu FL-Esi one endof the strip into a frillingor ruffiing machincthrough an instrument-not altogether unlike'the common hemr'n'enwhich;turn-s over the unhe mmed e g'ea as at-b,'Fig. 2', and til;-

the same. time Lintroduce'a seoond and nor r0wer'strip of fejbric, o,throu,e;hw asimilar instrume'nt,,,which' turns under both edges of the nerrowers'trip, as see e and '6, Fig. 2.

From t-hencethe tw'o str'i pspass together i n to thecrimping or ,plariting' 'appa r'z'i't us, the said apparatusoperetingjo crimp,-pla'it, or shift rowi strip- I as 'fast as t the crimps or pleits are formed inthe wider strip, (see Fig. 3,)

the widerstrip-only;while the nar or bend liesflat and. is fed in, only I and thus the band, lying flat upon the shirredoe plaite'd ruffle, the'two are stitched together by tworows of stitches, f This operation leaves the" as denoted in red. other edgeifulled, frilled-,f,or ruffled, and the upper stitched edge smooth, even finished, and

's'titt'ened, one sideshowing the plaits or crimp's smoothly laid andstitchethflnd the otherside ig; 3. Therefore,"

p'leinjen'd smooth, as see.I H E Having thus fully 'setifiorth and described my iuventiomivhat Iclaim as new'and useful, and desire tosecnre by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article, of manufacti 1r e',-t he within described 'band-rujffl'e produced 'from. a; strip crim'pedfor plaited, and. a single and the bandend ruffle folded and stitched with tworows of stitchingfin they of fabric, shirred combined with a, band, elsomade from strip of fabric,-

maim'er substantially-es herein specified.

Witnesses:

JOHN EE'ARLE; 

